WIKIS AND BLOGS
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Pic Lits
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
http://www.piclits.com
Delicious
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralised source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
http://delicious.com
Wordle
Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
http://www.wordle.net
Teacher Tube
Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
http://www.teachertube.com
Poll Daddy
Create surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles.Find out what your visitors are thinking by creating surveys and polls using custom templates or creating your own. Use our in-depth reporting engine to aggregate, print and export your results.
http://www.polldaddy.com
Bubble Share
BubbleShare's mission is to help you tell your story using fun Web-based tools that make your photo sharing experience easy and entertaining. Just upload your photos, and if you care to, remix them and add comments or your own voice to them. BubbleShare generates a private link for your friends and family to view or you can even add your album to your blog.
http://www.bubbleshare.com
Be Funky
BeFunky Photo Effects allow everyday people to easily create photographically rich and artistic results from their digital images without the need for any technical knowledge. These "one-click" photo effect options produce desired results effortlessly and each effect comes with the option to make simple adjustments.
http://www.befunky.com
Edmodo
Traditional web 2.0 tools in a K-12 classroom environment create concerns over privacy. Edmodo has been built with the privacy of students in mind. It provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, link and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events and assignments to students.
http://www.edmodo.com
Voki
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalised speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.
http://www.voki.com
Voice thread
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and videos and people to navigate pages and leave comments, using voice, text, audio or video. Share a VoiceThread with friends, students and colleagues for them to record comments too.
http://www.voicethread.com
Fodey
Allows you to generate newspaper articles that can be included in blogs and other applications.
http://www.fodey.com
Jing Project
Snap a picture of your screen, record video of on-screen action and share it instantly over the web.
http://www.jingproject.com
Zimmer Twins
An animation application where you can watch a starter, create an ending to the story by writing the dialogue for the characters and putting scenes together, save work for others to watch and watch movies made by others.
http://www.zimmertwins.com.au
Glogster
Mix graphics, photos, videos, music and text to create colourful posters that can be shared in blogs and other applications.
http://www.glogster.com
Mindmodo
Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain. Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends.
http://www.mindomo.com